US federal rules taking effect
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Which published US federal rules take effect between two dates, and which CFR parts they amend?
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Scored across 5 tools
Each tool targets a distinct resource or action: get_rule for a single document, list_agencies for agency summaries, list_rules_amending_cfr_part for CFR-part filtering, list_rules_taking_effect for date-range queries, and verify_quote for fact-checking. The filtering criteria are mutually exclusive and descriptions are explicit, so no two tools are ambiguous.
All tool names follow a consistent snake_case verb_noun pattern (get_rule, list_agencies, list_rules_*, verify_quote). The two list_rules variants are clearly differentiated by descriptive suffixes, maintaining a predictable and readable convention.
With 5 tools, the set is well-scoped for its narrow domain of tracking US federal rules taking effect. It covers single-rule retrieval, agency rollup, CFR-part lookup, date-range listing, and quote verification without redundancy or unnecessary bloat.
The tools fully cover the stated purpose: retrieving rules by document number, agency, CFR part, and effective date, plus verifying claims about rule details. There are no obvious gaps or dead ends; the only excluded operation (topic search) is explicitly out of scope.
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5 toolsget_ruleGet one rule by Federal Register document numberARead-onlyInspect
Everything this register holds for one final rule: title, agency, effective date, the rule's own DATES paragraph, the CFR parts it amends, its publication date, a link to the rule on federalregister.gov, and a verbatim quote of the Federal Register API record it was read from. Document numbers look like "2026-13685" and appear in every other tool's results.
Inputs: document_number (required). Returns: rule, register
list_agenciesList the agencies with rules taking effectARead-onlyInspect
Which agencies have rules coming? Returns each agency in this register with how many rules it has taking effect, the soonest and latest of those dates. Call it to get an agency name exactly as the Federal Register writes it before filtering with list_rules_taking_effect — "Federal Aviation Administration", not "FAA".
Inputs: query. Returns: agencies, coverage, register, agencies_total
list_rules_amending_cfr_partList rules amending a CFR partARead-onlyInspect
Is anything changing in the part of the CFR I am subject to? Give a CFR title and part — "49 CFR 192", "40 CFR 52", "21 CFR 1308" — and get the already-published final rules that amend it, soonest effective date first, with each rule's DATES paragraph and a verbatim quote. The part is matched whole, so "40 CFR 5" never returns rules about 40 CFR 52.
Inputs: cfr_part (required), from, limit. Returns: rules, cfr_part, coverage, register, +2 more
list_rules_taking_effectList federal rules taking effect between two datesARead-onlyInspect
What lands on me, and when? Lists already-published US federal final rules whose effective date falls between two dates, soonest first, optionally from one agency. Each with the rule title, the agency, the CFR parts amended, the document number, the rule's own DATES paragraph and a verbatim quote of the Federal Register record. This is the compliance-calendar question — use it for "what takes effect in Q4", not for searching the Federal Register by topic.
Inputs: to (required), from (required), limit, agency. Returns: to, from, rules, coverage, +3 more
verify_quoteCheck a claimed fact about a rule against the registerARead-onlyInspect
Is this right? Check a claim about a final rule — its effective date, its agency, the CFR parts it amends — against the Federal Register record instead of trusting it. Says whether the claim matches a stored value, appears only in the verbatim quote, or differs (and then what the record says instead). Effective dates are exactly where a confident wrong answer costs money.
Inputs: claimed_value (required), document_number (required), field. Returns: match, record, verdict, attestation, +4 more
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